Peru grows serious coffee at serious altitude: tiny family farms — often one or two hectares — strung along the Andes in Cajamarca, Amazonas and San Martín in the north and Cusco in the south. Caturra, Typica and Bourbon dominate, almost all of it washed, and the classic cup is gentle and deeply sweet: caramel, orange, apricot, soft florals. For decades that quality vanished into blends; Cup of Excellence auctions and a wave of quality-first exporters are finally putting names and prices on it.
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Peru is the world's largest exporter of certified-organic arabica — much of it from farms smaller than two hectares.
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🇪🇨 Ecuador
Tiny volumes, huge altitude — the Andes' boutique origin.
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🇨🇴 Colombia
Balanced, sweet, dependable — coffee's friendly all-rounder.
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🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Clean, sweet and bright — the home of the honey process.
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🇷🇼 Rwanda
A thousand hills of red Bourbon — bright, sweet, redemptive.
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